End Rape on Campus (EROC) is a survivor advocacy organization dedicated to ending sexual violence through survivor support, public education, and policy and legislative reform.

We provide free, direct assistance to all survivors of gender-based and sexual violence on campus interested in filing federal complaints, organizing for change, or drawing public attention to hold their schools accountable.

We have assisted hundreds of students at dozens of schools file Title IX, Clery Act, and other civil rights complaints to seek justice and reform.

EROC DENOUNCES THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S ROLLBACK POLICY THAT ENABLED TRANSGENDER PEOPLE TO BE INCARCERATED IN FACILITIES THAT MATCH THEIR GENDER IDENTITY

WASHINGTON—End Rape on Campus (EROC) denounces the Trump administration’s disregard for gender identity when incarcerating transgender people, exposing folks to more sexual violence. These protections were aimed at reducing harassment, abuse, sexual assault, and rape that transgender people regularly experience in alarming rates while in prisons and jails.

According to a 2014 Bureau of Justice Statistics report, 40% of transgender people in prison reported being sexually assaulted or abused between 2011 and 2012. The 2015 US Transgender Survey found that transgender people were five times more likely to be sexually assaulted by facility staff than non-transgender people in jails and prisons, and transgender people were over nine times more likely to be sexually assaulted by other inmates. Lambda Legal’s 2012 survey of transgender prisoners, Protected and Served, found that 57% of respondents reported being verbally assaulted or harassed and 12% reported being physically assaulted by staff in the previous five years. In all cases where the race of participants was considered, these rates were dramatically higher for transgender people of color.

“The Trump administration is trying to erase transgender people off the face of this earth,” added Catalina Velasquez, EROC’s Communications Director, and a transgender woman herself. “From reinterpreting the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title IX so that they exclude transgender people from any protections against discrimination to a deportation agenda that targets transgender immigrants, the Trump Administration is treating us as less than human and undermining the purpose of the Prison Rape Elimination Act.”

End Rape on Campus (EROC) is a national survivor-led nonprofit dedicated to ending gender based violence on college campuses through survivor support, prevention through education, and policy advocacy. You can learn more at www.endrapeoncampus.org and follow us on Facebook and Twitter @EndRapeOnCampus.